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SvennoJ on 05 September 2024

Israeli drone kills at least six Palestinians in occupied West Bank

At least six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone attack in the occupied West Bank. Israel says the military aircraft targeted Palestinian fighters who “posed a threat” to their forces in Tubas.


Israeli forces destroy house in Tulkarem refugee camp: Report

Israeli forces destroyed a house in the al-Madares neighbourhood of the Tulkarem refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported. Sources within the camp told Wafa that Israeli forces blew up a house belonging to the al-Doush family after planting explosives inside it.

Teams from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) entered the camp and evacuated individuals suffering from smoke inhalation in the aftermath of the explosion.

At the same time, Israeli forces deployed more vehicles to the camp, surrounding it from all entrances, particularly along Nablus Street. Israeli military bulldozers also resumed destroying what they had demolished in previous incursions into the camp and in Tulkarem city.


Power outage in parts of Jenin as deadly Israeli incursion continues

Electricity has once again been cut in parts of Jenin city and the refugee camp, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

Power was severed in several neighbourhoods as Israel’s ongoing incursion into the area continues, Wafa said, citing local sources. Israeli army bulldozers destroyed streets and power lines, resulting in the outage.

Thousands of families remain trapped in the Jenin camp, which has been under an effective siege for more than a week.


Israeli forces bulldoze Jenin in the occupied West Bank



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SvennoJ on 05 September 2024

Hamas leader calls on Palestinians to join ‘resistance’ in occupied West Bank

Senior Hamas member Abdulrahman Shadid has called for the “expansion of resistance” in the occupied West Bank as Israeli forces continue a large-scale incursion into several towns and cities.

“Our people … across the West Bank should work on strengthening and engaging with the resistance because the occupation’s plan is to target every house, every village, and every street,” Shadid said in a statement.

It is an “ethical, national, and religious obligation”, he said, adding that the Palestinian people will not “give in to the enemy”.

Shadid also accused Israel of planning to expand its assault and target “every inch of Palestinian land”.


Violence in West Bank increasing ‘by the hour’, UNRWA says

UNRWA says violence and destruction in the occupied West Bank “increase by the hour”. “The past week was the deadliest for Palestinian civilians in the West Bank since November last year,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

“This is unacceptable. It must stop now.”


Israeli army storms Balata refugee camp in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have raided Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus city, in the West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

A fleet of Israeli army vehicles accompanied by a bulldozer stormed the camp while firing live rounds. The vehicles fanned out into several streets, including the camp’s main commercial square, destroying property.

The attack comes as Israeli forces conduct a large-scale incursion for the eighth day in several towns and cities in the northern West Bank.


Red Crescent gets aid to trapped Jenin camp residents

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says its teams have distributed supplies including food, baby formula and water to residents besieged by Israeli troops inside the Jenin refugee camp.

The camp, home to about 12,000 people, has been cut off since Israeli forces launched a major incursion there and in other areas of the northern West Bank more than a week ago.

In a post on X, the PRCS said its teams delivered “essential relief supplies … to 1,175 families” in the camp.


Jordan minister accuses Netanyahu of creating ‘explosion’ for regional war

Jordan warned any attempt by Israel to displace Palestinians into Jordanian territory would be considered a “declaration of war”.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi urged the international community to act before the situation ignites in the occupied West Bank and the wider region.

“Israel is waging another war [in the West Bank]. Netanyahu and his government are pushing towards an explosion of the situation in the entire region,” he said. “Israeli actions on the ground have killed all opportunities for achieving a just peace.”

Safadi accused Israel’s prime minister of obstructing a ceasefire with Hamas after Netanyahu “changed his positions and withdrew from his commitments”.



SvennoJ on 05 September 2024

Hundreds march silently through Tel Aviv streets

Hundreds of people have marched silently through the streets of Tel Aviv carrying 27 mock coffins to represent the 27 captives whose bodies have been recovered by the Israeli military in Gaza.

“Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, sentenced Carmel, my cousin, to death – her and all the hostages,” said Gil Dickmann, the cousin of Carmel Gat, one of six captives whose bodies were recovered last weekend.

“She was abandoned to her death by the government. [It] could have brought her back. Three hundred twenty-seven days she was there in Gaza in captivity. There were 327 opportunities to bring her back, and every single one was missed.”

In angry public statements, captives’ families have accused Netanyahu of blocking a ceasefire and sacrificing their loved ones’ lives for the sake of “achieving all the goals”.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets in recent days, calling for a deal and saying time is running out to bring home the captives alive.

Relative urges Netanyahu gov’t to ‘seal the deal’ for captive release

Gadi Moses, a relative of a captive in Gaza, was one of the protesters to hit the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday demanding a deal to return those held by Hamas. It was the fifth consecutive day of marches after the bodies of six captives were found last weekend.

“We all know that they were alive there and now they’re not. They came back in coffins,” said Moses.

“Twenty-one people already came back dead from Gaza. And you know we still have people there that are dead and need to be brought back to be buried in Israel. But still, we have many people alive and we shout for them that we get to seal the deal and bring them home before they’re dead, too.”

Protesters have blamed Prime Minister Netanyahu for failing to secure a truce deal and prisoner exchange with Hamas.


Israel officials hold security cabinet meeting over captive deaths

Prime Minister Netanyahu convened the security cabinet to discuss the government’s response to six Israeli captives found dead in Gaza last weekend.

According to broadcaster Channel 13, among those in attendance were Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer.

Some officials voiced opposition to immediate retaliatory actions, arguing the current circumstances were more conducive to negotiating a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, rather than pursuing military escalation.

The discussions also touched on the need to maintain control over the strategic Philadelphi Corridor, located along the border between Gaza and Egypt.

Netanyahu reportedly reiterated his refusal to withdraw Israeli forces from the Philadelphi Corridor. The refusal has stalled ceasefire negotiations with Hamas.



SvennoJ on 05 September 2024

Germany getting a conscience?

Israel obliged to ‘uphold law and order rather than jeopardise it’: Germany

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock denounced Israel’s military assault on the occupied West Bank and urged elements within the government to stop fuelling religious tensions.

“We firmly reject any attempts to shake up the existing status quo of the holy sites in Jerusalem,” she said on a visit to Jordan.

Actions such as the visit by far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem “are irresponsible and are already fuelling an absolutely explosive situation. We expect the Israeli side to stop this provocation”, Baerbock said.

The deadly incursion into the occupied West Bank is causing the German government great concern, she added.

“Israel is the occupying power in the West Bank and is obliged under the Geneva Convention to uphold law and order rather than jeopardise it,” Baerbock said. “This explicitly includes protecting the population from attacks by violent, radical settlers.”

Nah, they'll still send weapons and defend Israel before the ICJ.

Israeli army wounds Palestinian girl in occupied West Bank assault

A Palestinian girl has been wounded during Israeli army raids in the occupied West Bank.

The incident occurred in the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, with the Palestine Red Crescent Society reporting the girl suffered an abdominal wound from Israeli gunfire and was transported to a hospital for treatment.

Witnesses reported that Israeli forces entered the town, closing its main entrance, which triggered confrontations with residents. Israeli soldiers fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse the crowds.

Israel has been carrying out large-scale raids in the occupied territory over the past week, which it says are aimed at dismantling armed groups and preventing attacks. Palestinians fear a widening of the devastating war on Gaza and a campaign of forced displacement.



SvennoJ on 05 September 2024

Reports of Israeli military withdrawal from Jenin

Local Palestinian media is reporting that Israeli forces have ended their siege of Jenin city and its refugee camp.

The Wafa news agency reported earlier that Israeli soldiers had pulled out from the vicinity of the Jenin Government Hospital and the city’s Ibn Sina Hospital, where they had been stationed since the large-scale incursion of the occupied West Bank began on August 28.

Local sources in Jenin have told Palestinian media that the Israelis have withdrawn completely, posting photos on social media of the destruction left after the nine-day siege of the city and refugee camp.

The military raid constitutes Israel’s largest assault on the occupied territory since the second Intifada in the early 2000s with at least 39 Palestinians killed and 130 wounded so far.

Israeli military raids continue across the occupied West Bank

Raids on Palestinian communities and attacks on local people continued over Thursday night in the occupied territory, including:

  • A 20-year-old Palestinian woman suffered bullet shrapnel injuries to her abdomen from random Israeli gunfire as she was closing a window inside her home in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem. Shooting broke out after Israeli forces stormed the village and local youth resisted the incursion.
  • There was a raid on the village of Beit Ta’mar, east of Bethlehem, during which a local resident’s house was stormed by soldiers and ransacked.
  • Five Palestinians were “severely beaten” by Israeli forces at the al-Jalama military checkpoint north of Jenin and required treatment by the Palestine Red Crescent Society for cuts and bruises, the Wafa news agency reports. No motive was reported for the attack on the five victims.
  • A 30-year-old Palestinian man was injured by shrapnel from bullets fired by Israeli forces following a raid on the Balata refugee camp, located east of Nablus.
  • Israeli settlers backed up by soldiers attacked the inhabitant of the Palestinian villages of Khader Kayed Bani Odeh and Khader Shahada Bani Odeh in the Atouf area, located in the northern Jordan Valley.


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SvennoJ on 05 September 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Suspends Journalism Professor Steven Thrasher After Gaza Solidarity Protest

We speak with journalist, author and academic Steven Thrasher, the chair of social justice reporting at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He was singled out by name during a congressional hearing about pro-Palestine protests on college campuses earlier this year, with one Republican lawmaker calling him a "goon" for protecting students in an encampment from violent arrest.

Northwestern filed charges against Thrasher for obstructing police that were later dropped, but students returning to Northwestern for the fall term will not see him in their classrooms because he has been suspended as Northwestern says he is under investigation.

In his first interview about the affair, Thrasher tells Democracy Now! that he stands by his actions and that he has "received no due process" from his employer. He says the university has previously celebrated him, including in "glowing" job reviews and by publicizing his work. "What they don't like is that I am now applying the same social justice journalism principles that I've applied to race and that I've applied to LGBTQ people, to COVID and HIV, that I was now applying those to Palestine," says Thrasher.

How U.S. College Administrators Are "Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza Protests"

As the fall term gets underway for students across the United States, we speak with journalist and academic Natasha Lennard about how college administrators are attempting to quash Gaza solidarity actions following mass protests at campuses across the country in the spring.

One example is New York University, which recently updated its student policy to make criticisms of Zionism potentially punishable under its anti-discrimination rules. "It's extremely dangerous," says Lennard, who teaches at The New School. "It performs de facto apologia for Israel, and to have that put into writing by a university so clearly is just open for further abuses."



firebush03 on 05 September 2024
SvennoJ said:
firebush03 said:

imagine if Joe Biden was in the forum using an alt. Just casually posting about how HAMAS needs to be exterminated or smth.

Ha, he doesn't need to. This forum is too small for Hasbara commenters, yet most of those you tube videos I post are full of them. They usually get buried under upvoted genuine comments, yet right after a video launches you see a whole bunch of them.

Anyway the US is all about Hamas needs to be exterminated. Already designated Hamas as a terrorist organization since 1995.

https://www.voanews.com/a/explainer-how-hamas-ended-up-on-us-list-of-terrorist-groups/7478227.html

“The simple, most basic definition is targeting civilians for the purpose of effecting social or political change”

Ironically that describes Israel's behavior to a T. All their policies are about collective punishment, targeting civilians. With the goal of never having a Palestinian state and annexing the West Bank and Gaza.

Actually that definition describes sanctions as well...

US is king of sanctions, just no (real) sanctions against Israel. (bar 3 individual settlers which means nothing)


And Biden is the king of issuing more sanctions

https://www.gibsondunn.com/2023-year-end-sanctions-and-export-controls-update/




Biden has been defeated by Netanyahu. I do believe he feels crushed about the ongoing genocide and being known as genocide Joe. He definitely was/is very emotional about the WCK workers getting killed and now Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Yet even though he has aired his grievances against Netanyahu many times, he doesn't seem to be able to do anything. His hands are tied.

It's the majority of the democratic party which is the problem. They're all right behind Israel, including Harris.
Sadly Republicans are no different.

What an unbelievably good take. I rlly enjoyed reading that lol. Feel like I learned something.



SvennoJ on 06 September 2024

Mother and daughter killed in dawn bombing of Gaza City

A Palestinian woman and her daughter have been killed and several others injured and missing under the rubble following an Israeli attack at dawn on a house in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reports.

The attack targeted the house of the al-Haddad family, which was located near the Jordan Field Hospital in Tal al-Hawa.


At least 2 killed in Israeli air attack on Rafah

An Israeli air attack in the northern part of Rafah has killed at least two people, according to our colleagues on the ground. It follows a series of overnight strikes in the city that killed six others.


Israeli air strikes pound Gaza City, Nuseirat

The fighting is still raging in northern Gaza. More Israeli strikes are hammering residential homes in the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood. Six Palestinians have been confirmed killed in one of the latest strikes on a residential home there.

Meanwhile, Israel’s military is presumably working to expand the Netzarim Corridor, where it can control Palestinians’ movement between the north and the south of the Strip, blowing up residential squares near the corridor.

It’s not only the north of the Gaza Strip that has been under fire.

We have heard loud explosions since the early hours of the morning in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. Initial reports from medical sources are that two Palestinians have been killed in the latest strikes in that battered camp.


Four more Palestinians killed in central Gaza’s Nuseirat

At least four people have been killed and a number of others wounded in Israeli shelling of a tent sheltering displaced people west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.


More than 160,000 children received polio vaccination in southern Gaza: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says more than 160,000 children were reached on the first day of the polio vaccination campaign in southern Gaza yesterday.

“Today we will continue vaccinating as many children as possible,” UNRWA said on X.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza yesterday said the Israeli army was refusing to coordinate the entry of medical teams affiliated with the emergency polio vaccination campaign into some areas of southern Gaza.

The first phase of the vaccination campaign was successfully completed in central Gaza, with more than 187,000 below the age of 10 receiving the vaccination.

The second phase is targeting an estimated 340,000 children in southern Gaza.



SvennoJ on 06 September 2024

Destruction of civilian infrastructure in focus after Israeli withdrawal from Jenin

Translation: Part of the destruction caused to the Cinema Roundabout in Jenin city as a result of the occupation’s aggression on the city.

Local Palestinian news organisations have shared video clips said to show the destruction inflicted on civilian infrastructure in Jenin and its refugee camp by Israeli forces during their siege of the city.

Israeli forces withdrew from the city and camp in the early hours of Friday morning after laying siege to both for 10 days, causing residents to flee and imposing great hardship for locals who were short of food, water, and cut off from electricity.

Translation: Press coverage – Part of the destruction left by the occupation army in Mahyoub Street in Jenin camp.


Palestinian man attacked at West Bank checkpoint has fingers amputated

Bilal Rabah Dar Atta, a young Palestinian man, has been beaten by the Israeli army as he attempted to cross a checkpoint at the village of Shuqba, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Local sources said the Israeli army shut the door of the Jeep on the man’s fingers. He was later transferred to a hospital where he received treatment for two broken fingers, while another two were amputated.

Human rights groups have warned of growing violence in the occupied West Bank, where the United Nations says more than 600 Palestinians have been killed since October 7.


Israel taking its ‘brutal crimes’ in Gaza to West Bank: Palestinian Foreign Ministry

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has accused Israel of taking the “brutal crimes” committed in Gaza to the occupied West Bank. It called on the international community to act in accordance with the principles it claims to uphold, including the protection of human rights.

In a statement, the ministry said the raids conducted in Jenin and Tulkarem were “a clear targeting of Palestinian civilians and the foundations of their national and human existence on their homeland”.


Palestinians start clearing wreckage in occupied West Bank’s Jenin

Palestinian Civil Defence crews have begun the arduous process of clearing rubble and repairing infrastructure in Jenin after a 10-day Israeli military raid.

Footage posted by local Palestinian media, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency, showed bulldozers and other heavy machinery navigating the city’s roads, stretches of which are entirely wrecked. Torn-up shops are seen in the background.

As we previously reported, the Israeli military’s expansive raid in the city and the refugee camp also killed at least 21 people and cut off water, power and sewage lines.


Palestinians operate a machinery to remove rubble from the street following an Israeli military operation in Jenin


Teams deployed to clear aftermath of Israeli siege in Tulkarem: Governor

Governor Mustafa Taqatqa has said technical teams had been deployed in the Tulkarem city and its refugee camps to start clearing the aftermath of the Israeli forces’ siege, according to the Wafa news agency.

The military operation, which began 10 days ago, primarily targeted the Jenin city and its refugee camp, but also extended to the Tubas governorate and its Far’a refugee camp.


Palestinian refugees walk past the rubble of houses that were destroyed during the Israeli army operation in Tulkarem


PRCS evacuates Tulkarem residents in need of medical care


Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) crews evacuate residents of Tulkarem, occupied West Bank, after a 10-day Israeli siege. September 5

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it is evacuating Tulkarem residents needing medical attention from the camp as Israel lifted a siege that lasted 10 days.

Images posted by PRCS on X show ambulances attempting to make their way past piles of debris littering destroyed roads as their teams carry stretchers to those in need.


Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) crews evacuate residents of Tulkarem, occupied West Bank, after a 10-day Israeli siege. September 5


More Israeli settler attacks reported in West Bank

Wafa is reporting that armed settlers attacked a gathering in Arab al-Malihat, northwest of Jericho, and detained several families inside their homes.

Hassan Malihat, from the Al-Baidar Organisation for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said Israeli forces arrested the brothers Muhammad, Hamza and Farhat Kaabneh after they were assaulted and detained by the settlers.

In the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, settlers burned vehicles belonging to Palestinian residents, Wafa reported.

These attacks come amid a surge in Israeli military and settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, which has unfolded in the shadow of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. In mid-August, Israeli settlers ravaged the village of Jit in an overnight attack that killed one 23-year-old man and injured several others.

Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have shot dead an American activist of Turkish origin with a live bullet to the head, according to local media. The incident occurred in the town of Beita, near Nablus in the West Bank, during the town’s weekly anti-settlement march.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the activist was volunteering as part of a campaign to protect Palestinian farmers.

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SvennoJ on 06 September 2024

Has Hezbollah re-established deterrence with Israel?

The intensity of cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and Israel has lessened after a spectacular exchange of attacks on August 25.

But will Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu try to inflame the border with Lebanon – or has Hezbollah succeeded in re-establishing deterrence?

Qassem Kassir, a political analyst believed to be close to Hezbollah, told Al Jazeera that Hezbollah’s mass rocket and drone attack on Israel on August 25 has “returned things to what they were” before Israel assassinated its top commander Fuad Shukr.

Karim Emile Bitar, professor of international relations at Saint Joseph’s University in Beirut, said “Israel will probably continue to strike certain targets in Lebanon but I doubt that in the near future they will go after a major figure like Fuad Shukr”.


Well Israel is focused on the West Bank now :/ War with Hezbollah is still ongoing nevertheless.


Israel claims overnight air raid on Hezbollah weapons depot in southern Lebanon

The Israeli military claims its air forces struck several sites in southern Lebanon overnight, including a Hezbollah weapons depot.

The munition storage facility was located near the village of Blida, while other targeted military sites were near the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Yarin, the army said.

The attacks follow another deadly Israeli air raid yesterday near the southern Lebanese town of Kafra, which severely damaged property in the area and killed at least one person, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).


Israeli media reports damage to buildings following fire from Lebanon

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan has reported that buildings have been damaged in northern Israel’s Metula, after three antitank missiles were fired from Lebanon.

The outlet reported no casualties from the incident.

Hezbollah, the armed Lebanese group that has been carrying out attacks on Israel in a show of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, has not yet issued a statement claiming an attack on Metula, but we will update you as events develop.


Fires break out in southern Lebanon as Israel drops phosphorus shells

The Israeli army has fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus in southern Lebanon, state news agency NNA has reported.

The incendiary weapon caused fires to break out in the area between Tell en-Nhas and el-Hamames, according to NNA.

Human Rights Watch has verified the use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in at least 17 municipalities across southern Lebanon since October 2023.

The use of airburst white phosphorus is prohibited under international law.


Hezbollah says it hit Israeli military targets in Metula, Shebaa Farms

The Lebanese group has announced in a statement posted on its Telegram channel that it targeted and hit buildings in northern Israel’s Metula, as well as an Israeli military barracks in the Shebaa Farms, amid ongoing tit-for-tat attacks along the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Hezbollah says it struck “buildings used by enemy soldiers in the settlement of Metula with appropriate weapons, and hit them directly”. Earlier, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reported that buildings in Metula had been damaged by three antitank missiles. Hezbollah also said it hit Ruwaisat al-Qarn in the Shebaa Farms.

“We bombed the Zabadin barracks with rockets and achieved a direct hit,” Hezbollah added in a separate statement.

Shebaa Farms, a territory claimed by Lebanon, was captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.


Israel hits alleged Hezbollah building in southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has released a video showing what it said was a raid on a Hezbollah target in the the al-Matmura area in southern Lebanon. The video shows the silhouette of a person moving on the ground floor of a two-story building before it is engulfed in smoke as a strike hits it.

In a separate post on X, the army also confirmed that Hezbollah launched strikes on the Metula area. It said firefighters were working to put out a fire but added that no casualties were reported.